ABSTRACT
A glass shot is a technique that is extremely low tech but very effective. Simply put, when a director needs to add scenery elements and it’s too costly to make set pieces, filmmakers would paint the needed extra scenery on a sheet of glass and shoot the actors with the glass directly in front of the camera. Track Points are small points in a frame, usually an area of the frame that are either much brighter or darker than the area around them. Every effects software package has a tool that can track these points and attach an element to them. Particle systems are used in most animation applications with the intention of replicating movement seen in nature such as smoke, clouds, dust, sand, rain, snow, and many more. It’s a common analogy among editors, much like magicians, to show the audience something that will concentrate their attention to one place so that they will be distracted by something else.
